WINSTON-SALEM – Internationally
acclaimed performance artist and author
Tim Miller is in residence at the
University of North Carolina School of
the Arts (UNCSA) this week.

Miller arrived Sunday and will be at
UNCSA through Saturday, March 24.

His visit to campus includes a series of
workshops with UNCSA students as well as
three public performances.

Miller will perform Glory Box
at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 22, in the
Thrust Theatre at Performance Place on
the UNCSA Campus, 1533 S. Main St.
Glory Box is Miller’s funny, sexy
and politically charged personal
exploration of same-sex marriage and the
struggle for immigration rights for
lesbian and gay bi-national couples. The
performance will be followed by a
reception, including book sales and
signing.

Tim Miller in Lay of the Land

On
Friday, March 23, Miller will present
Performance/Body/Self, a performance and
talk, from 6-7 p.m. in the Patrons Theatre at
Performance Place.

His
residency concludes with a public performance of the
Student Project Workshop at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 24,
in the Thrust Theatre at Performance Place. The
presentation will be followed by a reception with book
sales and signings in the Performance Place lobby.

These
three presentations are free and open to the public.
Those who would like to attend are asked to reserve a
seat by calling the UNCSA Box Office at 336-721-1945.
Please be aware: The performances include adult themes.

Miller’s workshops and residency are sponsored in part
by a $2,500 grant to UNCSA by the Adam Foundation, an
alternative funding resource for LGBT-related projects
in the Triad for 22 years. The foundation is supported
by a diverse donor base and in June 2011 awarded grants
totaling $35,000 to eight local LGBT projects, including
UNCSA’s Tim Miller Project, covering issues related to
health, bullying, arts, equality, youth homelessness and
education. For more info, visit:
www.adamfoundation.org.

TIM
MILLER
is an internationally acclaimed performance artist.
Miller's creative work as a performer and writer
explores the artistic, spiritual and political
topography of his identity as a gay man.

Miller's performances have been presented all over North
America, Australia, and Europe in such prestigious
venues as Yale Repertory Theatre, the Institute of
Contemporary Art (London), the Walker Art Center
(Minneapolis), and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He is
the author of the books “Shirts & Skin,” “Body Blows”
and “1001 Beds,” which won the 2007 Lambda Literary
Award for best book in Drama-Theatre. His solo theater
works have been published in the play collections O Solo
Homo and Sharing the Delirium. Miller’s newest book,
“1001 Beds,” an anthology of his performances, essays
and journals, was published by University of Wisconsin
Press in 2006.

Miller
has taught performance at UCLA, NYU, the School of
Theology at Claremont and at universities all over the
United States. He is a co-founder of two of the most
influential performance spaces in the United States:
Performance Space 122 on Manhattan's Lower East Side and
Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, Calif.

Miller
has received numerous grants from the National Endowment
for the Arts. In 1990, Miller was awarded a NEA Solo
Performer Fellowship, which was overturned under
political pressure from the Bush White House because of
the gay themes of Miller's work. Miller and three other
artists, the so-called "NEA 4," successfully sued the
federal government with the help of the ACLU for
violation of their First Amendment rights and won a
settlement where the government paid them the amount of
the defunded grants and all court costs. Though the
Supreme Court of the United States decided in 1998 to
overturn part of Miller's case and determined that
"standards of decency" are constitutional criterion for
federal funding of the arts, Miller vows "to continue
fighting for freedom of expression for fierce diverse
voices."

Since
1999, Miller has focused his creative and political work
on marriage equality and addressing the injustices
facing lesbian and gay couples in America. Glory Box
and US are funny, sexy, and politically charged
explorations of same-sex marriage and the struggle for
immigration rights for lesbian and gay bi-national
couples. They recount the trials Miller has been forced
to undergo in trying to keep his Australian partner in
the United States. Says Miller, "I want the pieces to
conjure for the audience a site for the placing of
memories, hopes, and dreams of gay people's
extraordinary potential for love." After a nine-year
stint in New York City, in 1987 Miller returned home to
Los Angeles, California where he was born and raised. He
currently lives there with his partner, Alistair, in
Venice Beach.

As America’s first state-supported arts school, the
University of North Carolina School of the Arts is a
unique stand-alone public university of arts
conservatories. With a high school component, UNCSA is a
degree-granting institution that trains young people of
talent in music, dance, drama, filmmaking, and design
and production. Established by the N.C. General Assembly
in 1963, the School of the Arts opened in Winston-Salem
(“The City of Arts and Innovation”) in 1965 and became
part of the University of North Carolina system in 1972.
For more information, visit
www.uncsa.edu.